knock-on effect

1. 1.

   a secondary or incidental effect

   Broaderconsequence

   United Kingdom

Questions about knock-on effect

What does knock-on effect mean?

knock-on effect means "a secondary or incidental effect".

Is knock-on effect a common word?

knock-on effect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.